Warren’s take: Washington rigged for big business

Credit: Ted Fitzgerald

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren will be commenting on the Republican National Convention throughout the week. Here is her second installment:

At tonight’s Republican convention, lots of politicians will probably say they support small businesses. But they probably won’t talk much about how Washington is rigged for big businesses, while entrepreneurs and small businesses are fighting uphill. And every time Scott Brown and his fellow Republicans vote for tax subsidies for oil companies or tax breaks for companies moving money overseas, they help keep it that way.

Brown voted against a plan to extend tax cuts for 98 percent of Massachusetts’ residents and 97 percent of small businesses in order to protect tax breaks for the wealthiest 2 percent. He voted to protect billions in tax subsidies for big oil companies, and then he worked in secret to water down Wall Street reform.

Republicans in Congress get special deals for the biggest companies, while they leave small business owners and middle class families to pick up the tab. Will Republicans admit tonight that big businesses and small businesses aren’t getting the same deals?